Q: Why should one of the wealthiest drug companies in the world be allowed to keep the price it’s charging a major global health institution for a lifesaving HIV prevention shot that’s about 100% effective, a secret? healthgap.org/press/gilead... A: they shouldn’t

🔹 Clinical trial transparency Clinical trials are the most costly part of developing medicines, yet cost is not disclosed by companies. Transparency here is essential to fair pricing and ensuring the public return. (See the excellent Transparency CORE toolkit by MSF) @rozscourse.bsky.social /7

💬 What if national pharmaceutical policy could help fix global asymmetries in medicine access—by design? 🧵 A thread on translating international commitments into meaningful national reform: /1 #GlobalHealth #HealthPolicy 🛟 💊🌐

Grim how we are discussing relative catastrophic cuts to health - and the cuts are catastrophic - but in absolute terms, health spending was already unacceptably low. WHO's budget shortfall = 8 hours of military spending. From Tedros's speech to the WHA this week: www.who.int/news-room/sp...

#WHA78 @rozscourse.bsky.social

KEI side event: Workplan for WHO and member states to improve the Transparency of the Value Chain for Biomedical Products - 22 May 2025 - Thank you to all our speakers and participants! #WHA78 @who.int

One of the most powerful panel discussions I have seen in a long time; deep anger and outrage that parents are watching their children dying from rare diseases when treatments exist that could save their lives. @justtreatment.org @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social

At the @wemos.org @hai-org.bsky.social #WHA78 side event on transparency where the Spanish Minister of Health highlights Pharma industry hypocrisy in saying they don’t know what their R&D costs are when this is the backbone of their justification for high prices

⚠️ South Africa: Lifesaving scientific research on prevention, testing, treatment and care for people living with #HIV and #tuberculosis is under serious threat due to funding suspensions and grant terminations U.S. government. msfaccess.org/us-funding-c...

Incredibly sad news that the only Mycetoma research center in the world was destroyed in Khartoum. Scientists lost 40+ years of samples, a significant setback in the fight against an already neglected disease. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Access to TB drug bedaquiline was delayed for over a decade due to its high price. It was the public disclosure of significant public and non-profit investments in its development that supported a global movement leading to a price reduction of this lifesaving drug. msfaccess.org/call-transpa...

What did it cost for @msf.org to run a large TB clinical trial? €33.9 million Well done MSF for this transparent analysis! journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Today in PLOS Global Public Health, MSF has published the costs of its landmark TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial. This is the first time the detailed costs of an individual clinical trial have ever been shared, challenging the lack of transparency in drug R&D costs 🧵 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Awesome to see Gary @garyseconomics.bsky.social at the wealth tax rally “I’m not very keen on rally’s. I always leave wondering if we can win. But I’m here cos I think we can win this one” #TaxTheSuperRich

NEW POLLING: 77% support ⬆️ taxes on the very richest over cuts to public spending 78% support a 2% wealth tax on net wealth over £10m 67% - think the very richest people in the UK should pay more in tax Tax the rich, don't punish the poor. @oxfamgb.bsky.social www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...

New from us @plosglobalpublichealth.org "Cholera vaccines for the rich, #cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests and global health needs" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

At most events on TB or HIV like this one for World TB Day, most speakers talk about their memories of how horrific the 80s and 90s were for these diseases in particular. Now with the massive aid cuts, there is clear fear of going backwards to anything close to those days

Very timely message for the UK government. No country can and should back track from any aid commitments right now! #FundingCutsCostLives

📢Today on #WorldTBDay we wrote to the UK govt calling for a reversal of the aid cuts - they will contribute to a devastation of TB services worldwide. MSF projects are already seeing patients that are resistant to all TB treatments. The world's most vulnerable should not face more cuts to care 👇

Things look very grim for tuberculosis services due to abrupt cuts by the US government Join us on Monday, on World TB Day as we discuss the latest crisis Date: Monday, March 24, 2025 Time: 12 p.m. EDT / 9 a.m. PDT RSVP: bit.ly/3XO86iQ

MSF is clear: the threat facing us today is not only a global public health crisis, but also a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe and it demands immediate action, cooperation and a global approach that prioritises the lives of people above all else. #IDSky #TBSky www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...

Increasingly high malnutrition rates in Yemen: "If we don’t act now by boosting nutrition programs, ensuring affordable transport to health facilities, and bringing care closer to people in need then we risk an even greater surge in the months ahead." www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/urgen...

WHO: “8 countries now have substantial disruptions to ARV therapy and will run out of medicines in the coming months. Disruptions to HIV programmes could undo 20 years of progress, leading to more than 10 million additional cases of HIV and 3 million deaths." healthpolicy-watch.news/grim-global-...

Really enjoyed this interview on CBS Evening News. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2II...

#Gaza: In the early hours of March 18, Israeli forces attacked multiple areas in the Gaza Strip, after almost two-months of an already fragile ceasefire. According to the Ministry of Health, hundreds of people have been killed.

These are not just numbers. These are parents, children, loved ones. This is not a tragedy. This is a crime against humanity. @msf.ca will continue to provide aid to #Palestine. We will continue to bear witness. But our work is not enough to solve issues that are emblematic of political failure.

🚨 The government’s #NHS England scrap raises more questions than answers. On Sky News, our Director Diarmaid:  “If we risk a large scale reorganisation without significantly increased funds, I have very grave concerns things are going to get worse instead of better.” ⬇️ youtube.com/shorts/GIrvj...

@chrislockyear.msf.org speaking at #UnitedNations: While statements are made in this chamber, civilians remain unseen, unprotected, bombed, besieged, raped, displaced, deprived of food, of medical care, of dignity.

This is heartbreaking… “Ms. Okose fears they [two children, 3 and 8] are drug-resistant. She collected sputum samples from them and their three siblings the day before the inauguration. The testing is frozen, and all five children continue to sleep under one blanket at night.”

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.

Only a matter of time before we will see reports of the increase of the # of highest burden countries.

Update on measles in Texas: The child who died was unvaccinated & had no underlying conditions before measles. 127 of 159 cases are in kids <18yo, whose parents mainly decided not to protect them with vaccines. 154 of 159 cases were unvaccinated or vaccination status unknown. 22 hospitalized.

“We were told to stop everything immediately” On Friday the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation announced the termination of three USAID agreements covering HIV programs in Lesotho, Eswatini, and Tanzania. Read groundup.org.za/article/we-w... by Sechaba Mokheti

Every morning I read something more disastrous and think that we haven't even begun to feel/witness the real impact of US fund cuts on health programs globally. TB vaccines research work on pause! newtbvaccines.org/take-action/

"Studies have drawn links between the youth mental health crisis and intergenerational inequality, unregulated social media, insecure employment and the climate crisis" Economic policies & corporate practices are making us sick. We demand accountability. #MadYouthOrganise

ATTN #EndTB advocates! Have you seen this new resource assessing the impact associated with the funding freeze & discontinuation on the #TB response? Check it out & make use of it in your awareness raising & #FundTBNow calls to action! Thank you @brookeenichols.bsky.social et al tb.impactcounter.com

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

“Instead of a careful handover, we’re being pushed off a cliff,” said Kate Rees, an epidemiologist with South Africa’s Anova Health Institute, which has also seen its funding terminated. Story on the devastating cuts to the HIV/AIDS field by my colleague @cohenjon.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

The sheer cruelty of the Trump administration is staggering Services to millions of people collapse as USAID cuts contracts worldwide www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Foreign aid cuts are no longer just a U.S. issue—they’re a global trend. The UK slashed ODA to 0.3%, its lowest ever, while Switzerland, New Zealand, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands also cut back. The EU is now reassessing its aid strategy/1 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“What we are demanding of Congress is that they stop behaving like doormats in the face of this attack on humanitarian assistance that truly is highly effective and life-saving.” Asia Russell, HealthGap www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

"Major United Nations health programmes were among those to get termination notices, including UNAIDS, the Stop TB Partnership and Scaling Up Nutrition as well as projects helping millions of forcibly displaced people.

🧵 PIH condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Trump Administration's mass termination of United States Government grants and contracts supporting essential health care delivery and humanitarian assistance around the world. Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇

Amid a month of horrific news, the last 24 hours stand out as the cruelest yet. 9,900 #USAID +State grant awardees received termination notices. Many of the axed programs had previously been deemed 'life-saving' and received waivers (tho the $ was not flowing). 🧵of cut programs #AidCutsKill 1/